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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Readme http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/1 Notes on LTSP clients http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/237 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noiseless Linux thin clients http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1204219612 If a clean desk and a quiet office are more important to you than fancy 3D graphics, this one might be for you. Based on the ideas of the [1]LTSP project, we have integrated a powerful Terminal Server into our trusty Linux setup and started rolling out cute little Thin Clients to some early adopters. Since their feedback has been very positive, we think now is the time to publicly announce the availability of these machines. Read on for the benefits you might get from choosing one of them as your office machine... References 1. http://www.ltsp.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Setting up an LTSP server for diskless clients http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/233 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Setting up an LTSP server for diskless clients http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/233 How to create partitions over 2TB on Linux http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/236 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Readme http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/1 How to create partitions over 2TB on Linux http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/236 Managing Samba Servers http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/69 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Installing a new D-PHYS Debian Server http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/224 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Installing a new D-PHYS Debian Server http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/224 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maintenance on file servers and server gateway http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1203327881 An security update on the server gateway schilt will be done on: * Thursday, February 21th 2008 between 19:00 and 22:00 During the gateway update we will also apply an operating system upgrade on the fileservers foostock, schibe, teutates and tamesis. Over the entire period access to the following services may be interupted: * home and group directories (winhome, machome, unixhome, windata, macdata, unixdata, astrodata) * print services * mail services * web services Please do not run any long running jobs during that time since the file servers won't be reliably reachable during that time. Ideally you shouldn't use any computer which relies on the mentioned services during this time. Especially all our managed workstations (Linux, Windows, Mac) won't be usable. Additionally we would like to reboot our managed Linux workstations so that we can provide some common features or applications again which are not available with the currently running kernels, e.g. AFS, traditional scheduling or VirtualBox. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Installing a new D-PHYS Debian Server http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/224 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Installing a new D-PHYS Debian Server http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/224 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Security Bulletin for February 2008 http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1202893714 Last night [1]Microsoft has released the [2]Security Bulletin Summary for February, 2008. There are 6 critical and 5 important updates. If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit [3]Microsoft Update to install the Security Updates. References 1. http://www.microsoft.com/ 2. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-feb.mspx 3. http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Setting up an LTSP server for diskless clients http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/233 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Local root exploit for all Linux kernels from 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1 http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1202742500 Last weekend two local root exploits have been released to the public, one that affects 2.6.23 up to 2.6.23.14 and 2.6.24 ([1]CVE-2008-0009, [2]CVE-2008-0010) and [3]one that affects all versions beginning with 2.6.17 and up to 2.6.22.17, 2.6.23.15, and 2.6.24.1 ([4]CVE-2008-0600). There are new kernel releases available which fix these issues: 2.6.22.18, 2.6.23.16, and 2.6.24.2. About half of our managed Linux workstations are already running a patched 2.6.24.1 kernel, the rest will be rebooted this evening after 10:00pm. Please logout this evening before you go home, save all unsafed work and don't start any long running jobs. To see if your workstation is still affected, [5]check our Big Brother: All workstations where the updates column ("upd") is yellow are not yet rebooted. You may also reboot your workstation yourself earlier. References 1. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0009 2. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0010 3. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/8 4. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0600 5. http://bb.phys.ethz.ch/bb/bb2.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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